New Information About Impact Of Hard Hits To The Head Revealed By High-Tech Helmets

In a game that spawned the term “slobber knocker,” is there a limit to the amount of impact a football player’s head can handle before the player suffers a concussion?”The answer is yes … and no, say researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. High-tech helmets worn by some University of North Carolina football players over the 2004 to 2006 seasons yielded new data that challenges conventional theories about these mild traumatic brain injuries. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Sports Medicine / Fitness on December 15th, 2007